Simon Cowell says giving up mobile phone has made him happier

Not using phone is ‘a strange experience but really is good for you’, music producer says

Germaine, your shock-jock musings just alienate today’s young feminists

With her views on rape, Germaine Greer has torpedoed the chance for women of all generations to find common cause

‘Surviving’ cancer is a weird ongoing journey of readjustment

Having been treated for head and neck cancer, Genevieve Fox looked for the yellow brick road back to her old, pre-cancer self, but the truth is it really isn’t like that

At times I can’t tell where I end and my migraines begin

Migraines are excruciatingly painful, but it’s more personal than that, says Eva Wiseman, a regular sufferer

The US has an HIV epidemic – and its victims are gay black men

If white men were being infected at the horrifying rate that African-Americans are, it would be front-page news, says Steven W Thrasher, who contributed to the book The Unfinished Queer Agenda After Marriage Equality

Binge-drink Britain: how one weekend bender can ruin your life

Just one big night out drinking can lead to pancreatitis – a painful and potentially fatal illness. Young people describe how their lives changed dramatically overnight

Maternity services set for more change as the NHS hits 70

Hospital births were once seen as the ideal in maternity services – now, women’s choice is driving policy

The pressure to have a second child

There are far easier ways to screw up your kid than by making them an only child, says Eva Wiseman

Bristol University faces growing anger after student suicides

Backdrop to exam season is mounting concern about student mental health

Word of the week: obesogen

If it ends with -ogen, it means something is being produced – in this case something that will make us dangerously overweight